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Show B6 Wednesday, May 28, 2008 Vernal Express .1 . 4.1 I : ,! V if i" V t t i ' . - , . , - j f " I .-A ' Fourth grade' students from Stone Creek Charter School in Avon, Colorado, take a rare moment of intermission in front of the Western Heritage Museum at Western Park in Vernal. Avon charter school visitors take in Uintah Basin sights Fourth graders, parents and teachers came to Vernal for a history and nature tour from the Stone Creek Charter School in Avon, Colo. "Twenty-four students and seven adults descended on Vernal to lean about the region," said coordinator and teacher Amy Ryerson. Before her was a restless group of students jostling for seating on the front patio of the Western Heritage Museum. Engaged En-gaged in a memory game, the kids American Legion baseball launched The Vernal Vectors and the Uintah Utes travel to Rangely, Colo. , for an invitational tournament tourna-ment that will attract other area teams as well. Uintah, fresh off a prep high school season, should have a strong team and will probably prob-ably play well. Vernal, on the other hand, a last minute replacement for Hayden, Colo., will just be getting get-ting their feet wet as the team has never practiced or played together. Even their name is new as compared to the old standbys like the Union Cougars, Rangely Panthers, Hayden Tigers, Moffat County Bulldogs, Altamont Indians, Indi-ans, Uintah Utes and Steamboat Springs Sailors. Some may ask what are vectors vec-tors and why would you name a baseball team that? Vectors are the coordinate points that make up most complex computer I ! f f i i. rrTT Mr hi A i 1 s ur i j -v Z AW' : ! ;; A . S - ' ' ',11 r yrA:iittjfcvlit-?r.- aligned themselves according to birth date. "Following the museum tour, we plan to visit the Utah Field House of Natural History Museum," Muse-um," said naturalist coordinator and teacher Todd Rainville. The students educational curricula includes an extensive natural and historical tour of the area. "We also plan to hike the Sounds of Silence and Desert Voices trails at Dinosaur National Na-tional Monument," Rainville graphics systems like movie animation and computer icons. Any good marketing agency knows that in order to introduce a brand new product you need to differentiate it from all the rest - hence the name Vectors - with a flavor of math, physics, computer graphics, engineering and a baseball diamond. The Basin economy - oil and gas - needs engineers. A quick look at the top 25 industries in the U.S. lists oil and gas as the number one. If you talk to our local USU officials and the human hu-man resource departments of top oil and gas companies they will indicate their need for engineers is critical. ConocoPhillips alone will lose over half their engineers within the next five years due to retirements. How do the Vernal American Legion Witbeck Post and the Ver S.I'1 ...' ;; A :A r i - WA : . J .. i i - r L- v & Jfe. ---- i Ai continued. "We'll conclude the hike with a visit to the petro-glyphs petro-glyphs and Josie's Cabin on the Cub Creek." "We are a charter school designed around the potential for greatness in every child," Ryerson explains. "This is fabulous school. We thought at one point we would have to move to find a school with this kind of educational curriculum, cur-riculum, " offered a mom who has one child enrolled and another to enroll next year. nal Vectors play this game? The American Legion encourages young men and women to better themselves in their studies, activities ac-tivities and social relationships. Baseball is one means to this end. In addition, mentoringthese participants in engineering, business, busi-ness, investments and computer careers will also help along with scholarships provided by these prospective employers. Legion baseball organizers have several goals. One is to develop a new Northwest ColoradoNortheast Colo-radoNortheast Utah American Legion League fall field in Vernal with two lit baseball facilities built by oil and gas companies at the new USU campus. They note that some 144 players between the ages of 16 and 19 would play on the field - each as potential recruits into USU's engineering - program. ' . t f . v - A r0A -S A:.Ar FlLr P .A' r ,A'rfy I VAy A AA - Melissa Pipher, Whitney Peterson and Rachelle Hadlock display theirwinning quilts along the Uintah High School staircase. Uintah High School quiiters show off beautiful finesse Three Uintah High School students were recognized for their quilting abilities. Top show quiiters Melissa Pipher, first place; Whitney Peterson first runner-up; and Rachelle Hadlock, second runner-up, unfurled un-furled their winning quilts along the staircase at the Uintah High School staircase for all to see. Pipher, Peterson and Hadlock represent to top quiiters among the 58-entries in the show. "These girls are the best of their field," said Renee Steele, UHS sewing and quilting teacher. teach-er. Pipher's winning design is called a Bluestreak, which is an original creation of painstakingly pieced-together 2-inch squares. "Quilting this blanket was a little intimidating at first," admitted Pipher, "But after a while, it got to be addicting." 7 " i. ' Cmtp i h i M&A. ) , MW. il ' ...L Vernal Elks Lodge members Ken Feltch, Marty Kay, llene McLean, Carol Feltch, Lee Chivers, Ken Kay, Myrna Cobbs and Darwin Kulland at Camp Wapiti. Carl Cobbs is not pictured. Elks cleanup Camp Wapiti It was a wonderful weekend to work outdoors recently - warm and no wind. A least that's what nine volunteers from the Vernal Elks Lodge thought as they worked at Camp Wapiti cleaning Vernal No. 13 cabin and other cabins, and rakingleaves, picking up fallen branches, and whatever else needed to be done to ready the camp for the first wave of eager campers. The volunteers were joined by others from the Utah Elks family as well as families of some of the kids who attended camps last year. Located in Settlement Canyon near Tooele, Camp Wapiti Wa-piti is a fully charitable 501(c)3 corporation with no paid employees, employ-ees, is staffed by volunteers, and !r Grand Entry Flag Carriers For the Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo Must be 14 or older to participate Try-outs: 5:00pm, June Please contact Tiffany 724-6463 Her mastery of the quilting art is seen ablanketof zig-zag design of green and white accented in red. Peterson's winning quilt is a trapunto, double-stuffed, design de-sign in pale yellows, blues and pinks. "For me, the process has been a great stress reliever," Peterson explained. "I've learned to put together intricate quilt tops which is something I'd love to do more of." Hadlock's design won her recognition as a first-time quilter - hard to believe with the precision preci-sion of her quilt. "I'm too much a of perfectionist, perfection-ist, so at first I was wigging out about my lines," said Hadlock. "But after a while I relaxed. Now, I'd like to sew more." Steele notes that her advanced t has a board serving at their own expense. The facility was built and is maintained by the Utah Elks, Ladies of the Elks and the Daughters of the Elks. It is operated oper-ated in cooperation with health agencies who use the facility for their camps, including Camp Hobe (American Cancer Society-Utah Society-Utah Division); Camp Hemo; Camp Wyatt (American Lung Association of Utah); Camp Valor (National Hemophilia Foundation); Founda-tion); Camp Liahonna (Hearing Impaired); Utah Deaf Women's Camp; Camp Chautauqua; and the Children's Justice Center. These agencies furnish their own doctors, nurses and staff. Camp Wapiti is used by medi- i 6, at Western Park Duncan if interested Dlnosaur JJoundop fiodeo A( v quiiters work alongside her novice quiiters. Unlike the beginners, be-ginners, however, her advanced student must finish a challenge project for their final. "They finish a quilt in half the normal time," Steele said. "The result of placing all levels of expertise in one class is that they learn as they teach each other. It becomes natural for them to pass on their information." Steele will take her two best students with her as she teaches Utah-wide quilt classes in Salt Lake City this summer. With 35 students in five classes, Steele's students will be able to apply' the teaching skills they learned in her quilt class. All participants in the quilt show received prizes and quilting supplies donated by quilt shops throughout the Basin. , . k-., '-.' ' f V - 4 cally-challenged youth as well as seven surrounding states. Children Chil-dren from the Uintah Basin have enjoyed the outdoor atmosphere and experiences at the camp. Foreclosure rates to rise SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A new report says Utah's housing bubble is forecast to burst in a big way, with one in 25 Utah homeowners projected to be in foreclosure in the next two years. The Pew Charitable Trusts attributes the rise in foreclosures to subprime loans made in 2005 and 2006. In those years, 24 percent of home loans in Utah were subprime. The group says the outlook is also grim in several other states, including Nevada, where one in 11 homeowners are projected to be in foreclosure in the next two years, and Arizona, where one in 18 homeowners may face the same circumstance. Rounding out the five states with the highest projected foreclosure fore-closure rates were California at one in 20, and Utah, which tied with Colorado, at one in 25. Our Ads are worth the time in the... Express M North Vernal Avsnua Vomul, Utah -435 789 351) www.vernal.com |